Die Verwandlung

Die Verwandlung

Based on a novel by Franz Kafka
directed by Leonie Böhm

SCHIFFBAU BOX
Premiere: 13 September 2024
approx. 90 min, no break

«What’s happened to me?»

Gregor Samsa, the man who wakes up as a bug one morning, lives in the spiritual compost of his kin. And he grows rampant, silently. Franz Kafka’s DIE VERWANDLUNG shows a family that is unable to embrace its core filth as part of their own existences. So Gregor Samsa chooses the freedom of death to detach himself from the others. Sister, mother, and father choose the freedom of independence and reject the family’s cloying toxicity in order to live. Kafka’s life-reckoning—he must choose between dependency and freedom, care for others and care for the self—does not work out for anyone.

This time director Leonie Böhm looks at the rot and mold, where the bugs live. How do we transform schisms and disgust into a viable future? What connective force harnesses that insect energy in the dark, allowing us to live as bugs among bugs?

Audio guide
Introduction: Fadrina Arpagaus, Dramaturgie

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Lukas Vögler
With
Vincent Basse
With
Eva Löbau
With
Staging
Stage design
Costume design
Light
Gerhard Patzelt
Dramaturgy
Outside Eye
Artistic Mediation T&S
Director’s Assistant
Costume design Assistance
Stage design assistance
Lenki Behm
Lioba Bangert
Inspection
Dayen Tuskan
Soufflage
János Stefan Buchwardt
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